[Manna - July 17]
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3
THIS is not worldly peace, not the peace of indifference,
not the peace of sloth, not the peace of self-indulgence,
not the peace of fatalism; but it is the
peace of Christ—"My peace."
Looking back we can
see that the Master preserved His peace with God
under all conditions.
It is a peace which implicitly
trusts to the divine wisdom, love, justice and power,
a peace which remembers the gracious promise made
to the Lord's faithful—that nothing shall by any
means hurt His faithful, and that all things shall
work together for good to them that love God.
This
peace can accept by faith whatever divine providence
permits, and can look through its tears with joyful
expectancy for the ultimate blessings which the Master
has promised, and of which the present peace and
joy are merely foretastes. Z.'99-95 R2456:6